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| 11:09 joel_ | Does anyone have any guide for using fai with a partial mirror or apt-proxy? |
| 11:11 stockholm | i do that |
| 11:11 stockholm | as apt-proxy is totally transparent you dont need a guide |
| 11:11 stockholm | just the right apt-sources.list |
| 11:11 joel_ | suer thing, should have engaged my brain first! ;) |
| 11:12 stockholm | :-) |
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| 11:44 mettler | fai-chboot: unknown host: IPADDR=192.168.1.100 ;( |
| 11:44 mettler | hab extra ma die ip zeile aufgefuellt: ip=192.168.1.100:192.168.1.119:192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:bmm11:bootp |
| 11:45 mettler | geht das nur mit ip=dhcp kernel param? |
| 11:54 mettler | hmmmm, ok skiptask chboot und dann . /tmp/fai/boot.log && ssh fai@fai2 "/usr/sbin/fai-chboot -vd $IPADDR" |
| 12:11 BScherrer | hi, does anyone know the videodriver in xorg.conf could be automatically configured? I found a template with (Section "Device") Driver="%%VIDEODRV%%", but it doesn't work and I have no clu how this could work |
| 12:14 mettler | you might try something like that? ..replace the %%VIDEO.. string with vga maybe |
| 12:14 mettler | perl -pi -e 's/Driver="%%VIDEODRV%%"/Driver=vga/' xorg.conf |
| 12:15 mettler | but it does not care about templates, just replaces the string with your driver |
| 12:15 Mrfai | newer xorg version does not need this any more. |
| 12:15 BScherrer | Mrfai: Do you know from which version on? |
| 12:16 BScherrer | mettler: I need it for different machines, so I cannot set one driver, except vesa, but it doesn't vene support 1280x1024 |
| 12:17 Mrfai | the lenny version does not need the driver name, since it detect the correct driver for most hardware. |
| 12:18 BScherrer | Mrfai: thanks, I'll have a look if I can go with lenny. At the moment, I'm searching for a solution for etch unfortunately |
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| 12:19 mettler | you might set your driver as variable, depending on your machine... `lscpi | grep Nvidia` && driver=nvidia |
| 12:19 mettler | then perl -pi -e 's/Driver="%%VIDEODRV%%"/Driver=$vga/' xorg.conf |
| 12:19 mettler | ^^its pseudo cod && probably not best practice ;) |
| 12:20 mettler | ehm perl -pi -e 's/Driver="%%VIDEODRV%%"/Driver=$driver/' xorg.conf |
| 12:21 Mrfai | I think this is a good solution. FAI also did it this way in the past. |
| 12:24 BScherrer | mettler: thanks, I just don't understand the grep correctly. Because it might be intel or ati |
| 12:26 mettler | lspci | grep -i Nvidia && driver=nvidia |
| 12:27 mettler | searches in lspci output for the string Nvidia if it finds it its true && sets driver=nvidia |
| 12:27 mettler | if there was no Nvidia in the output, the grep command would not return a string |
| 12:28 BScherrer | mettler: ah, pretty cool, thanks :) |
| 12:28 mettler | && only continues if the previous command copmpleted successfully |
| 12:28 mettler | np, have fun |
| 12:29 mettler | i have to work on setting up nvidia drivers with fai -today ;) |
| 12:34 BScherrer | do you know if lspci always refers to the video card as "VGA compatible controller"? I want to eliminate the possibility that grep returns e.g. the intel network card (when probing for intel graphic card) |
| 12:37 mettler | ;) im not sure, but i get "VGA compatible controller" ..just lookedup a server+notebook nvidia/ati |
| 12:37 mettler | and all have the "VGA compatible controller" |
| 12:37 Mrfai | on all my machines it uses VGA compatible controller |
| 12:39 BScherrer | ok thanks, that's quite a good hit rate :) |
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| 16:15 Joelio | hey guys, I'm trying to setup FAI, I've gone through the install but the /srv/tftp directory hasn't been created |
| 16:15 Joelio | PXE directory /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg does not exist. at /usr/sbin/fai-chboot line 385. |
| 16:15 Joelio | any ideas? |
| 16:19 mgoetze | Joelio: did you run fai-setup? |
| 16:19 Joelio | yes, I did |
| 16:21 mgoetze | Joelio: have you installed tftpd-hpa? |
| 16:21 Joelio | yes |
| 16:21 Joelio | it's enabled |
| 16:22 Joelio | just run a fai-setup -v and I notice that it's complaining about missing packages |
| 16:23 Joelio | might format the box and start from scratch again.. there's something not quite right |
| 16:42 Joelio | doh! I think I forgot to add the apt source to the /etc/fai/apt/sources.list!! |
| 16:43 Joelio | oh well, etch is reinstalled now, at least I know I've got a clean baseline to work from |
| 17:02 Joelio | looking a lot better now |
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| 17:32 mettler | wie kann man disk_config beibringen die partition ohne dateisystem zu erstellen? |
| 17:32 mettler | so muss ich immer 2partitionen mit ext3 formatieren, mach dann mein raid drauf und lege noch mal ext3 auf dem RAID dev an... |
| 17:33 mettler | so mache ich: Creating file systems: mke2fs -q /dev/sda1 |
| 17:34 mettler | und dann mkfs.ext3 -q /dev/md0 |
| 17:34 mettler | dauert halt ewig |
| 17:35 Joelio | I'm getting close!!! The client is getting a DCP lease now, but it will not boot. I'm getting 'TFTP open timeout' |
| 17:35 Joelio | any ideas? |
| 17:40 mettler | tftp running? |
| 17:40 mettler | here: /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -v -s -l /srv/tftp/fai |
| 17:41 mgoetze | mettler: musst dir ne neuere version von fai holen, dann gibts sw-raid und lvm support ;) |
| 17:42 mgoetze | Joelio: have you set next-server in your dhcpd.conf? |
| 17:42 mettler | thx mgoetze ;) ...da hab ich schon einige versuche unternommen, aber ist schon ne weile her |
| 17:42 mgoetze | Joelio: also, try running tcpdump to see whether tftp packets are actually arriving, and what they're asking for |
| 17:43 mettler | aber wurde ja schon lange nicht mehr in der mailinglist erwaehnt ...funktioniert wohl inzwischen alles? ;) |
| 17:43 mgoetze | keine ahnung, nie probiert *g* |
| 17:44 mgoetze | (ich wuerde ja, aber teamleiter hat beschlossen dass fuers aktuelle projekt immer noch alles etch-basiert sein soll) |
| 17:45 Joelio | mgoetze: There are just ARP broadcasts asking for a DNS name that doesn't exist (I'm not using DNS a.t.m, but the host and fqdn are in the fai server's hosts file) |
| 17:46 mettler | damn ^^ -jetzt ist ja endlich boot_degraded_arry in ubuntu gefixxt (war dem wahnsinn nahe weil die raids nicht redundant booten wollten --auch mit setup_storage2) |
| 17:47 mgoetze | Joelio: uhm, always run tcpdump with the -n option ;) |
| 17:47 mgoetze | Joelio: (and really, did you set next-server?) |
| 17:50 Joelio | I have just set next-server to the name of the fai build box (faibuild) |
| 17:51 Joelio | I see something like 'who has arp 127.0.1.1 tel 10.255.0.2' ???? |
| 17:51 mgoetze | Joelio: and that's also the one running tftpd, yes? |
| 17:52 Joelio | yes, but I can't see tftp running in ps aux |
| 17:52 mettler | in.tftp localhost and try to download something |
| 17:52 mettler | so, gn8 cya |
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| 17:52 mgoetze | Joelio: tftpd-hpa is configured to run from inetd by default, you can change it by editing /etc/default/tftpd-hpa |
| 17:53 Joelio | it's enabled in there |
| 17:53 Joelio | inetd is running too |
| 17:54 Joelio | the line is in inetd.conf also |
| 17:54 Joelio | tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot |
| 17:54 mgoetze | you'll probably want to change that to -s /srv/tftp/fai |
| 17:58 Joelio | I've changed that, restarted the inetd daemon.. tried again and still get an ARP timeout |
| 17:58 mgoetze | well if you're getting an arp timeout there's either something wrong with your lan or with your pxe firmware |
| 17:59 mgoetze | try a different nic from a reputable vendor ;) |
| 17:59 Joelio | they're intel NICs |
| 17:59 mgoetze | so, uh, wait, 127.0.1.1? |
| 17:59 Joelio | yea, that's what I thought |
| 17:59 mgoetze | where'd that address come from? it shouldn't be in circulation... |
| 18:00 Joelio | no idea |
| 18:00 Joelio | it's a completely fresh debian etch install |
| 18:00 mgoetze | what did you set as next-server? |
| 18:01 Joelio | faibuild.. the name of the box |
| 18:01 Joelio | (at least in /etc/hosts... like I said, we aren't using DNS on this test segment) |
| 18:01 mgoetze | try doing it with ip addresses |
| 18:01 Joelio | it failed to start DHCP when I did that |
| 18:01 Joelio | I'll try again |
| 18:02 mgoetze | it works in my dhcpd :) |
| 18:02 Joelio | ahh! |
| 18:02 Joelio | I'll try again |
| 18:04 Joelio | yes! getting closer, it finds the TFTP daemon now |
| 18:04 Joelio | ... but it fails to load any config :( |
| 18:04 mgoetze | so, did you use fai-chboot? |
| 18:04 Joelio | no, do I need to do that now? |
| 18:04 mgoetze | yes, now would be a good time :) |
| 18:05 Joelio | haha, sorry, can you tell this is my first time |
| 18:05 Joelio | :) |
| 18:05 mgoetze | heh, don't worry, was the first time for everyone at some point... well except maybe Mrfai... hm... |
| 18:08 Joelio | AWESOME!!!! |
| 18:08 Joelio | You're an absolute star mate, thanks so much for your help!! |
| 18:08 mgoetze | np :) |
| 18:10 Joelio | haha, it's dropping to busybox now, but that's enough for today... The rest is for tomorrow now |
| 18:10 Joelio | Thanks again |
| 18:10 mgoetze | sure, have fun tomorrow then :) |
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